Essure - Permanent Birth Control

Tanya - posted on 07/08/2009
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My husband and I are undecided about having another baby, but I know the time will come when we have to decided on a permanent birth control. I have got information from the essure site and from my long time dr. but I don't know anyone who has had the procedure done. The site has all good stories but they are trying to sell a product, and my dr. says it's a good form of permanent birth control But I would like to hear from women who have essure, I want to know about your experence. How is it working for you? Do you recommend it to other women?

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Tanya - posted on 07/09/2009

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Thanks for the advice ladies, I love all feedback :)

Permanent birth control kinda scares me too, but I know eventually we will have to find a way to protect ourselfs from getting pregnant, I have been on the pill (which i'm horrible at taking thats how we got our 2nd daughter :) and I have a IUD in now (it's good for 5 years) but I don't like it too much due to not very good experiences with it ;) .. My husband is worried about me getting my tubes tied and the essure and how it will effect my cycle for the rest of my life.... And he talks about getting a vesctomy but who knows if he'll really do it?... Then our religion teaches "natural family planning" that's how we had our 3rd daughter, but we'll end up with 20 kids I know it! Which would be great but we cant really afford that many...LOL.. So I know we will have to decided to do something eventually :) ... So I figured this was a good option compared to getting your tubes tied.

While I don't have essure either, I have looked into it too. I was just curious what it was and what some moms have said about it. From what I have heard and read, most women are really happy with it. When they say that it's practically pain-free and can do it in the office you have to realize that it's still them shoving a long stick up through your uterus to your fallopian tubes and implanting a little spring-looking thingy. The test they perform to see if the implants are 100% effective involves injecting dye into your uterus (via your vagina) and doing x-rays to see if the dye passes the implants or is contained within your uterus. I have heard this REALLY REALLY hurts.

I've never had Essure done but from what I've read it's a pretty good alternative to having your tubes tied. Good luck!